Garment-supporting device.



PATENTBD MAY 15, lada.

J. BTTINGER. GARMENT SUPPORTING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 2, 1905.

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UNlTF JOSEPHINE ETTINGER, OF UORTLAND, NEW YORK.

GARNIENT-SUPPORTING DEVIIOE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 15, 1906.

Application filed Tune 2, 1905. Serial No. 263,458.

.T0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, Josnrnnvn ETTINGER, a citizen of the United Statesof America, residing at Cortland, in the county of Cortland and State ofNew York, have invented new and useful Improvements inGarment-Supporting Devices, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to belts, and has for its object to produce acomparatively simple inexpensive device of this character designedespecially for use in connection with shirtwaists, one whereby the waistwill be properly held to the waist-line, one with which a skirt may bereadily engaged, and one wherein the back of the skirt` will be properlysupported to prevent sagging.

With these and other objects in view the invention comprises the novelfeatures of construction and combination of parts more fully hereinafterdescribed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is an elevation of a portion of awaist and a belt embodying the invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is adetail perspective view of a portion of the belt. Fig. 3 is a sectiontaken on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1. Fig. i is a perspective view of one ofthe belt-engaging hooks. Fig. 5 is an elevation of the combined buckleand hook employed for connecting the ends of the belt. Fig. 6 is aperspective view of the front hook removed from its buckle.

Referring to the drawings, 1 designates the back portion of a waist ofany ordinary construction and material having sewed thereto along itslongitudinal edges, as at 2, a strip of material 3, constituting a beltretaining member or casing, there being formed in said material atappropriately-spaced intervals and upon opposite sides of the centralback line openings or buttonholes 4.

Entered longitudinally through the casing 3 is a belt 5, of any suitablematerial, there being carried by said belt and within the casing 3 asheet-metal portion or member 6, provided adjacent its ends withtransverselyextended openings or slots 7, through which the belt 5 isthreaded, and with oppositelydisposed clamping portions or tongues 8,adapted to be folded downward upon the belt after its passage throughthe slots 7, thus to maintain the plate 6 and belt fixedly againstrelative longitudinal movement, while struck from or otherwise formed inthe late is a pair of longitudinally disposed oops 9, designed toregister, respectively,

with the buttonholes 4L and to project outwardly through. the latter.

Adapted for engagement with the skirt (not shown) is a pair ofsupporting members or hooks 10, formed from sheet metal and eachcomprising a plate having struck therefrom a tongue 11, designed toenter through one of the loops 9, these supporting members beingpreferably attached to the skirt by means of pins 12, engaged with theirrespective plates by folding the normally upper edges of the latteraround one arm or bar 13 of the pins.

The front ends of the belt 5 are connected, as illustrated in Fig. 5, bymeans of a buckle 14, which carries a hook 15, formed from sheet metaland having engaging portions or ears 16, adapted to be folded around onebar of the buckle, as illustrated, the hook 15 be-"f ing adapted forengagement with the front portion of one of the garments of the wearerfor giving the proper downward slope to the belt and a long-waistedeffect to the front of the shirt-waist.

ln practice the belt may be readily engaged with a waist equipped withone of the retaining members or casings 3 by threading the beltlongitudinally therethrough, it being apparent that this operation maybe readily effected through the medium of the plate 6 by folding thebelt backward thereon at one end, and, furthermore, that the supportingmembers 10, may owing to their detachable engagement with the skirt, bereadily changed from one skirt to another. When the belt is properlyengaged with the waist, the latter will be drawn downward to thewaist-line and maintained in proper position to prevent its ridingupward, while the skirt will through the engagement of the supportingmembers 10 with the loops 9 be properly supported to insure comfort tothe wearer and prevent sagging.

From the foregoing it is apparent that l produce a simple device whichmay be readily and inexpensively applied and one which in practice willadmirably perform its functions to the attainmentlof the ends in view,it being understood that minor changes in the details of constructionherein set forth may be resorted to without departing from the spirit ofthe invention.

Having thus described my invention,what I claim is-- The combinationWith a garment having a strip of material attached thereto to form a IOOIOS

Casing, the 'latter being provided With longitudinal openings, of ametal strip seated in the easing and having outstruek loops arranged toregister with and project through said openings7 said strip being alsoprovided adjacent itsends With transverse openings and havingoppositely-disposedtongues situated adjacent said openings, a beltthreaded through the openings foreonneotion With the strip and thetongues being folded into elamping engagement With the belt, andgarmentsupporting hooks adapted for engagement with a Second garment andhaving tongues designed to enter and for engagement With said loops.

In testimony whereof I ai'lX my signature in presence of tWo Witnesses.

JOSEPHINE ETTINGER.

Witnesses: o

CLarroiv R. LUSK? o ARLETTA W. B. PRATZ.

